Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer (Cloud and Data Platforms)

This is a Platform Engineering role. This position is not a DevOps role.

Location : Toronto

Physical Presence : 3 days mandatory in office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Duration; 6+ Months Contract

Role Overview

As a Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and operating standardized, reusable cloud platforms that enable data, analytics, and AI workloads at scale. This role focuses on platform architecture, infrastructure automation, and operational excellence rather than application delivery or DevOps ownership.

You will work closely with security, architecture, data, and engineering teams to ensure platform reliability, scalability, and compliance while enabling downstream teams to self-serve infrastructure and platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud platform foundations using Infrastructure as Code, with a strong focus on Terraform based modular patterns.
• Engineer and operate Azure based platform services with a focus on reliability, security, scalability, and governance.
• Build and maintain standardized platform pipelines and automation frameworks to support infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Design and operate platform integrations for data and analytics services, including Databricks environments.
• Implement and manage API platform capabilities, including APIM and APIOps practices aligned to enterprise guardrails.
• Support platform operations by responding to infrastructure and platform related production issues and ensuring platform stability.
• Collaborate with security, risk, and architecture stakeholders to ensure platforms align with organizational standards and controls.
• Participate in backlog management, sprint planning, and delivery tracking using JIRA.
• Contribute to continuous platform improvement through documentation, automation, and technology evaluation.

Candidate Requirements (Must Have)

Nice to Have

Core Platform Engineering Skills

Education